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Kincade Fire, California

Image captured on 27 October 2019, by the VIIRS instrument, on board the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite.

Image showing the Kincade Fire in northern California, acquired on 27 October 2019 by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Instrument, on board the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite. Red dots overlaid on the image are thermal anomalies/hotspots detected by the VIIRS thermal anomalies algorithm. They represent the center of a 375 km pixel flagged as containing one or more thermal anomalies.

View an animation of the Kincade Fire on the 27 October from 17:00 - 23:00 UTC (10:00AM - 4:00PM PT) at 10-minute increments with geostationary imagery from GOES-East.